In an unprecedented, voluntary effort, GM is contacting all Volt owners to offer them temporary use of another new model until formal NHTSA investigations are complete. And said new model need not necessarily be another Volt. It could be a sensible and similarly-styled Cruze or, as noted by Jalopnik, it could be Chevy's original high-voltage car: the Corvette.

Don't take this as an attempt by GM to gloss over any gory incidents. To date, none of the few reported fires involving customer-delivered Volts have been attributed to the cars themselves.

Even the lone example's battery pack that burned after a NHTSA severe crash test only did so a full three weeks after impact. Subsequent controlled tests to duplicate the results produced just one battery pack fire, one week after damage.

Lessening the likelihood further is GM's practice of sending a technician to fully drain battery packs of heavily damaged consumers' Volts after the cars' OnStars send an electronic ouch notification.

We would probably be the exception to that rule. It would simply be too tempting to resist; a vacation from the everyday car. Like a long weekend in Vegas, you know there'll be plenty of time for sensibility. Just not for a little while.

In that case, we might have to skip the 'Vette and put a Cadillac CTS-V Coupe into action. How about you?